Crucial Vote Looms in Ukraine

Outcome May Determine
Whether Nation Allies
With EU or Russia

KIEV, Ukraine -- As tough elections go, the campaign for Sunday's presidential vote in Ukraine makes the pitched battle between the U.S. presidential candidates look genteel.

When Viktor Yuschenko, the leading opposition candidate in Sunday's presidential election here, broke out last month in lesions that disfigured his face, acute pancreatitis and a sudden rash of stomach ulcers, taking him off the campaign trail for a month, he...